Chapter 698

Su Xuan could understand the gentry opposing Sun Ce, but for the Sun family, especially Sun Ce's brother Sun Quan, to lead the opposition was Sun Ce's own problem.

He couldn't even handle his own brother, keeping him by his side without discovering his ambition and little actions.

Guo Jia and the others took the intelligence and browsed through it quickly; Guo Jia was also speechless: "This Sun Ce is indeed quite a failure!"

"More importantly, this Sun Quan is being clever but cutting off his own future!"

"This is the first time I've seen someone courting death like this."

"Hehe!"

Cheng Yu sneered: "He probably thinks he is very smart! Little does he know, he has led himself into a dead end and even implicated many people of the Sun family!"

Clearly, it would be impossible for Sun Quan to control so many troops secretly behind Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's back without the support of those in power in the Sun family.

That person is Sun Ce's cousin, Sun Ben.

This person is capable and highly valued by Sun Ce.

Guo Jia couldn't help but look at Su Xuan and ask: "Lord, what do you plan to do? And how should the Sun family be handled later?"

"Well!"

Su Xuan pondered: "Let Sun Ce handle the Sun family members himself! As for those Jiangdong gentry, it is not impossible to let Sun Ce handle them either!"

"First, have the Dark Guards pass the news to Sun Ce and let him make his own choice!"

"I hope he won't disappoint me!"

"If necessary, we can send troops to help him suppress the rebellion; in short, Jiangdong cannot have too much chaos!"

Guo Jia and Cheng Yu nodded: "That is also fine!"

Immediately, Su Xuan called Jia San and ordered him to send a message to the Dark Guard leader in Chaisang City to meet Sun Ce and explain the situation and Su Xuan's opinion.

In less than half an hour, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu met Yi Shiqi, heard his purpose, and saw the detailed intelligence content provided by Yi Shiqi.

"Damn bastards! Damn gentry! And Zhongmou and Sun Ben, how dare you treat me like this?"

Sun Ce roared in a low voice, filled with rage.

If he weren't worried about alerting Sun Quan and the gentry in the city, Sun Ce would have almost lost control of his voice.

After reading the intelligence, Zhou Yu was also gloomy: "I didn't expect that bastard Sun Quan to have done so much behind our backs!"

"Bofu! You cannot continue to indulge him this time!"

"And those gentry who participated in this, you cannot show mercy this time either!"

"We must cut the Gordian knot, completely purge these people, and do this beautifully; otherwise, the evaluation of you and me in Prince Qian's heart will inevitably drop significantly, which is not a good thing for the Sun family or the Zhou family."

No matter what, Zhou Yu could not allow the years of effort and planning he and Sun Ce had put in to be destroyed by such a group of villains.

"It was also our carelessness and overconfidence that led to this situation; otherwise, how could they have hidden it from us?"

Zhou Yu said indignantly.

Hunting geese all day, only to be pecked in the eye by a goose.

It is simply a great humiliation.

"Hmm!"

Sun Ce nodded with a gloomy face, his eyes flashing with cold light: "Gongjin, you are right; we have come this far, we cannot disappoint Prince Qian, and we cannot let down the families behind us!"

"I will leave the gentry to you! You can mobilize all the troops in the city; I have only one request: take these people and their accomplices in the shortest possible time with minimal losses;"

"Absolutely do not be soft-hearted;"

"As for Sun Quan, Sun Ben, and other Sun family members who participated in this, leave them to me!"

"I will give them a quick end!"

Speaking of this, Sun Ce's eyes were full of killing intent; clearly, he had developed murderous intent toward Sun Quan and Sun Ben and no longer intended to spare them!

He knew he would be scolded by his mother afterward, but Sun Ce had no choice.

If he didn't want to lose points in front of Su Xuan, and if he still wanted the Sun family to have a good future under Su Xuan, he had to do this.

"Blame only yourself for being too stupid, Second Brother!"

"Don't blame your big brother; after all, truly speaking, you were the one who betrayed me first and wanted to backstab me!"

"Did you ever think that everything you have today is all thanks to me, your big brother?"

Sun Ce thought resentfully in his heart.

After raising him for several years, he didn't expect to raise a white-eyed wolf.

Originally, Sun Ce thought his second brother was exceptionally smart, and after joining Prince Qian's ranks, he planned to let him enter the Xiangyang Academy for further studies, and once he reached the age of capping, he would properly introduce Sun Quan to serve under Su Xuan.

He thought that by then, Sun Quan's position would definitely not be low, and his future would be incredibly bright.

Unfortunately, all of this was in vain!

"This..."

Zhou Yu hesitated, looked deeply at Sun Ce, reached out and patted Sun Ce's shoulder: "It's hard for you! Then I'll go first!"

Saying this, Zhou Yu walked away quickly.

Sun Ce stood blankly in the room, looking up at the ceiling for a long time, sighed, and walked out quickly.

"Kill!!!"

That night, Su Xuan and the others outside the city heard countless sounds of fighting in the city; through the spirit beasts, he saw everything in the city.

"Second Brother, is there anything else you want to say to me?"

Sun Ce held an iron spear, pointed the tip at Sun Quan's neck, and asked coldly.

Sun Quan looked gloomy and unwilling: "Big Brother, I am your own brother; do you want to kill me just to defect to someone else?"

"Heh!"

Sun Ce sneered: "You still know you are my own brother! Then why didn't you think we were brothers when you betrayed me and backstabbed me?"

"Why didn't you think we were brothers when you wanted to seize my foundation and trap me to death?"

"Do you know that if I hadn't stopped it in time, my Sun family would have been gone?"

This fool really doesn't understand the severity of the situation at all!

He even boasted before that he had a chance to defeat Su Xuan and swallow Su Xuan's troops and territory.

He didn't even look in the mirror; with his stupid appearance, is he worthy?

He is not worthy!

Sun Quan realized that Sun Ce really didn't intend to let him go this time.

His face turned cold, and he looked at Sun Ce coldly: "Hmph! You still have the nerve to say I want to seize your foundation? Look at what you have done!"

"You are actually absurd enough to prepare to fight Su Xuan in three rounds? And prepare to give the Jiangdong foundation to Su Xuan?"

"If this continues, does our Sun family have a future?"

"Are you worthy of Father by doing this?"

"If he knew about this, he would probably jump up and destroy you, this unfilial son, right?"

Sun Ce's forehead veins bulged, and he gritted his teeth: "You bastard, you still haven't changed! Then don't blame your big brother!"

"Have a safe journey!"

"Puchi!"

With that, Sun Ce pierced Sun Quan's heart with his spear, ending Sun Quan's short life in Sun Quan's stunned expression.

Sun Ce could even see the regret and resentment in Sun Quan's eyes.

He was unwilling!

Unfortunately...

Sun Ce felt pain and sadness for a few seconds, then composed himself, and killed Sun Ben with a spear.

After this, he left the house where Sun Quan was staying and rushed to help Zhou Yu.

"Tsk tsk!"

When Su Xuan saw Sun Ce killing his own kin, directly cutting down Sun Quan and Sun Ben, he couldn't help but click his tongue: "I didn't expect Sun Ce to be such a ruthless person! He was actually willing to kill his own brother and cousin!"

"I underestimated his ruthlessness before!"

"This kid is really like his father Sun Jian!"

Didn't Sun Jian rise step by step by relying on a kind of ruthlessness back then?

Of course, his talent and bravery cannot be ignored.

"He had no choice!"

Guo Jia shook his head: "Running into such a brother who pits his own brother, what other better way did Sun Ce have?"

"He knows very well that since Sun Quan is the mastermind of this incident, if he doesn't die, you, Lord, will not be at ease!"

"Furthermore, he was backstabbed by Sun Quan and Sun Ben and almost lost his life; in this situation, if Sun Ce still insisted on sparing Sun Quan and Sun Ben, he would be too much of a saint;"